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- v. third-person singular simple present indicative form of disown.
Examples
“In a letter to Murray, March 6, 1816, he says that he "disowns"'The Curse, etc.',”
“Although Brendel generally does not look kindly upon his distant discographical past (he apparently "disowns" his world-premiere Prokofiev Fifth Concerto that closes disc 35), he certainly has little for which to apologize here, musically and pianistically speaking.”
“11: 02 AM ET -- State media: Mousavi 'disowns' Wednesday protest.”
The Huffington Post: Iran Uprising Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 24)
“11:02 AM ET -- State media: Mousavi 'disowns' Wednesday protest.”
The Huffington Post: Iran Uprising Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 24)
“Society disowns the suffering war creates for soldiers, and the abandonment of them is as much a cause of PTSD as is the war itself," writes Tick in his 2005 groundbreaking book, "War and the Soul.”
“But, when Mary's mother ends up dying as a result of straying to close to the fence, and her brother seemingly disowns her, Mary is thrust into the custody of the Sisterhood.”
“When they marry, his father disowns him, but they struggle on in love, until she's diagnosed with cancer and they can't afford the costly treatments.”
“Derrida's poetically rendered claims about finitude and the possibility of mourning being constitutive of friendship (which includes love) resonate powerfully with criticisms that have been made of Heidegger's one-sidedly self-focused conception in Being and Time (1927) of what it means to have an "authentic" comportment -- one that owns rather than disowns -- toward the finitude of our existence.”
The Huffington Post: Robert D. Stolorow: The Work of Mourning, by Jacques Derrida
“And a Republican murdered by an unabashed anti-government racist who penned these words before his own death: "I love justice more than I do a country that disowns it.”
The Huffington Post: Douglas Forbes: The Vote Is In: We Lost
“But he disowns orthodox Christianity, and this makes it all the more ironic, and disgusting, that he saw himself as a kind of representative against threats to "Christendom.”
The Huffington Post: Ben Stevens: Is Anders Breivik A European Fundamentalist?
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